Incident at College of Staten Island Was a Pot Bust Gone Wrong

November 30, 2011

A cop subdues a man on the CSI campus, in a photo reportedly taken yesterday.

Yesterday we wrote of a developing incident at the College of Staten Island that, at first, had rumors of a shooting swirling among students and on Twitter. It turned out there was no shooting at all, as the school explained yesterday in a statement. As for what really happened — an “off-duty member of the school’s auxiliary service” (the Advance calls him a cafeteria porter) was caught smoking pot in a bathroom and was confronted by a cop who tried to arrest him. The man, whom the Post identifies as Cory Holmes, 39, ran to a parking lot, where he struggled with the police officer and, according to cops, tried to take the officer’s gun. Holmes was subdued, handcuffed, went into cardiac arrest, and later died at Richmond University Medical Center.